środa, 26 grudnia 2012

The Best of John Coltrane

piątek, 2 listopada 2012

Chicago Chess Blog

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Bobby Fischer vs. Albert Sandrin, Milwaukee 1957

The fourteen-year-old Bobby had already won the Game of the Century, but he had not yet won his first U.S. Championship: that would come shortly after this game, in his miracle year 1958. Bobby didn't win the 1957 North Central Open, the traditional Turkey weekend event in Milwaukee, but he won this game against former U.S. Open champion Albert Sandrin of Chicago. Fischer was a virtuoso of the King's Indian Attack: this is a great early game that I'd never paid attention to before. Hat tip to Marty Wilber for calling it to our attention.


  http://chicagochess.blogspot.com/2012/08/bobby-fischer-vs-albert-sandrin.html

The Bobby Fischer Defense by Garry Kasparov | The New York Review of Books




The Bobby Fischer Defense

MARCH 10, 2011

Garry Kasparov

Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall—from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
by Frank Brady
Crown, 402 pp., $25.99                                                  
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Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer after Spassky won the first game of the 1972 World Chess Championship, held in Reykjavík, Iceland. Fischer went on to win the championsh


The Bobby Fischer Defense by Garry Kasparov | The New York Review of Books

Estate of Bobby Fischer facing a possible Checkmate


July 28, 2010

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Bobby Fischer Against the World



 June 11, 2011

Bobby Fischer Against the World

Jon N. Hall

Regular readers of American Thinker might pass on the documentary I'm recommending, but it's not primarily about chess.

Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011) is mainly about the psychology of a troubled mind. But it's also a sweet little slice of history. It touches on the Cold War rivalry between the Soviets and America, where America's David takes on the Soviet Goliath in the storied 1972 Reykjavík match between Fischer and Boris Spassky. It also treats Fischer's defiance of the travel ban to Yugoslavia in the 1992 rematch, which made Fischer a fugitive.

The flick is primarily about Fischer's demons -- his descent into mental illness. We see Bobby as a teenager when he became the American chess champion at age 14 and when he takes the world title at age 29. Then the film follows him through the downward spiral of his life, as he becomes involved in Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God (and then leaves the Church when Armstrong's prediction don't come true). And there's Fischer's embrace of anti-Semitism and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, despite his Jewish heritage. Bobby also looks at other chess greats who descended into madness. (Do crazy men play chess, or does chess make men crazy?)


Some say Fischer was the greatest chess player of all time, but at what price? When you see what a sweet kid he was, you think of the waste. If Fischer had trained his considerable mind on curing cancer or doing something important, what a contribution he could have made.

Chess is probably a ruined sport anyway, as computers have bested carbon-based life forms. What need is there for creativity and genius when there's the brut force of gigahertz and terabytes?

Liz Garbus' Bobby Fischer Against the World is a gem that should interest a wide array of folks. It has high production values, has a bunch of fascinating interviews, and tracks beautifully. And it looks great on an HDTV. 
This blog might seem like an advertisement, but I checked Netflix and Bockbuster and I don't think Bobby is out on DVD yet. Hopefully, it will be soon. But HBO has scheduled airings for Saturday the 11th and for the following Tuesday. So set your DVRs. You can also order it "on demand" from HBO.
 Jon N. Hall is a programmer/analyst from Kansas City.




Bobby Fischer Against the World


Bobby Fischer Biography

Robert James Fischer was born in Chicago, Illinois at the Michael Reese Hospital by the banks of Lake Michigan on March 9th, 1943. His father Gerhardth Fischer was born in Berlin, Germany in 1909, he was a biophysicist. His mother was Regina Wender. They separated when Bobby was 2 years old, and Regina had custody of Bobby and his older sister Joan who was then 7 years old. She was a qualified registered Nurse and wanted to take a Master's Degree at New York University in Nursing Education. She decided to move to Brooklyn. It is there that the legend of the world's greatest Chess player begins.

http://www.bobby-fischer.net/Bobby_Fischer_Biography.html

The Bobby Fischer Unofficial Home Page

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an Americanchess Grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Fischer was also a best-selling chess author.

"All I want to do, ever, is just play chess..." - Bobby Fischer

 http://www.bobby-fischer.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer

wtorek, 30 października 2012

The Game of the Century

Piękna partia - najpiękniejsza.
Wielkie dzięki Bobby !

The Game of the Century usually refers to a chess game played betweenDonald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956, which Fischer won. It was nicknamed "The Game of the Century" by Hans Kmoch in Chess Review. Kmoch wrote, "The following game, a stunning masterpiece ofcombination play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matches the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies."[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_the_Century_(chess)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_the_Century_(chess)